Killer Whale

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1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)

  

1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed (Eric Cline, PhD)

From about 1500 BC to 1200 BC, the Mediterranean region played host to a complex cosmopolitan and globalized world-system. It may have been this very internationalism that contributed to the apocalyptic disaster that ended the Bronze Age. When the end came, the civilized and international world of the Mediterranean regions came to a dramatic halt in a vast area stretching from Greece and Italy in the west to Egypt, Canaan, and Mesopotamia in the east. Large empires and small kingdoms collapsed rapidly. With their end came the world’s first recorded Dark Ages. It was not until centuries later that a new cultural renaissance emerged in Greece and the other affected areas, setting the stage for the evolution of Western society as we know it today. Professor Eric H. Cline of The George Washington University will explore why the Bronze Age came to an end and whether the collapse of those ancient civilizations might hold some warnings for our current society.

Considered for a Pulitzer Prize for his recent book 1177 BC, Dr. Eric H. Cline is Professor of Classics and Anthropology and the current Director of the Capitol Archaeological Institute at The George Washington University. He is a National Geographic Explorer, a Fulbright scholar, an NEH Public Scholar, and an award-winning teacher and author. He has degrees in archaeology and ancient history from Dartmouth, Yale, and the University of Pennsylvania; in May 2015, he was awarded an honorary doctoral degree (honoris causa) from Muhlenberg College. Dr. Cline is an active field archaeologist with 30 seasons of excavation and survey experience.

The views expressed in this video are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Capital Area Skeptics.

https://youtu.be/bRcu-ysocX4

From Doing to Being with Jon Kabat Zinn

https://youtu.be/q-2QoTYujNg

Barnes Lecture 2019 - Jon Kabat-Zinn

Barnes Lecture 2019 - Jon Kabat-Zinn

In his talk, "The Public Health Roots of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction," Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn described the core elements of MBSR, its roots in public health, and some of the lines of evidence supporting its clinical effectiveness across a wide range of medical conditions and diagnoses.

Brown University
Wednesday, April 3, 2019

Free will is an illusion

One must construct a fortress for oneself through one's own impregnable reasonings. #Antisthenes #Antístenes #Sabio #Sabiduría #LaVida /

Information Overload is the Bane of my Life What do I hope to accomplish?

My daily struggle is to understand what is important, to my situation, in the constant barrage of information on the Internet.  

What can and should be ignored?  

Is my purpose to seek distraction, novelty and entertainment? 

Or is the goal and purpose to my Net Surfing to gain valuable knowledge?  

What do I hope to accomplish?

“There are things that attract human attention, and there is often a huge gap between what is important and what is attractive and interesting."

- Yuval Noah Harari   

  

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”

― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

And Donald Trump has not helped make being informed easy with all his mixed messages.